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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

What we are witnessing - extended from the very beginning of the
Republic - is a civil war. One both within the Republican Party and one
between that party as it will emerge and the Democrats. Make not
mistake, Paul Ryan and others - blind and spineless as they have been -
haven't a clue about what a tiger they have latched onto.

Again, I
am a free market, small government, self-help, strong military,
balance-of-power realpolitik true believer; who believes in a green
future, advance technology efficiencies and transparency in government. I
reject secrecy in government, love term limits, and believe in Main
Street over Wall Street to use an American term.

I believe in the
rule of law, and a strong well-funded police, and severe penalties for
police officers who - using bias of any kind - abuses the public trust.

Above all, I believe in human value and the application of politics to
secure the same; with a capacity for political ruthlessness, not because
someone criticizes you, but when they employ resources seeking to
undermine you and your office then prudence demands you release hell
upon such vipers with unrelenting relish.

But this is not what is motivating the current political upheaval in America.

When I warned about Mr. Obama in May of 2008, many good friends -
speaking kindergarten sweet sounding nonsense - told me I should "be
positive".

I tell you now, Trump will not turn America around. The
economic numbers do not project it and his concept of the US economy is
not merely wrong, but a 19th century concept. Trade is NOT THE PROBLEM
for

America. The problem is technology is eliminating jobs faster than
they can be replaced.
It is telling that Mr. Trump has children in
their 20s and 30s who should be able to speak on the impacts of
technology; and yet not once have we heard from them a statement of the
high tech digital future, environmental options for green energy
development, sympathy for any distressed peoples or anything original or
life-giving.

They seem cold and merely suckling on their father's
businesses. They are not partners with people like Elon Musk or
Zuckerberg or the Google boys. Nothing! The central reason - I suspect -
is those people I named are supremely talented, and are inventing the
future, as Trump's children merely work in a business daddy created and
have not between them advanced a single innovation we know of.

This
does not mean they are not intelligent or even nice. However it is
telling, even if compared for instance with the young men of the same
age that inherited the Fiat fortune in Italy; who by comparison are in
innovation design, charities, arts and culture, breaking the mould.

What this means is there is no one to tell him differently, and one must
not expect Giuliani or Gingrich - two men, whatever their talents - who
live on the fringe of political lackydom and what they have not
compromised in the venal personal lives, they have slaughtered in
defending utter flaming bullshit for Trump.

Humans can become overwhelmed by moments and find in themselves in grace and power to make the world better.

Mr. Trump has a talent for self-promotion and to the extent that that
has helped him produce nice very very shiny buildings, it always leaves a
wreckage of abuse, broken contracts and cruelty behind it.

Then he
uses media and the courts to muddy the situation until his victims give
up. That is his factual record. Call it "good business" or "genius" if
you like, but it is hucksterism and a hustler's ethic. Microsoft created
over 1000 millionaires and a dozen billionaires, changed way of lives
function; so did Google and certainly Apple. Warren Buffet did so almost
single handedly - giving $32 billion - 16 times Trump's net worth - in
one go, when he began with nothing and Trump began with $40 million.

That is good business.

What you will have in a Trump administration is an ongoing Republican
fight that has NOTHING to do with changing America, and people of the
most divisive record and hateful deeds and language presented as
managers of the levers of the American state over the very people they
have demonized, vilified and marginalized.

I say, Hilary would have been awful in many ways, and many Democrats are as venal.

It does not take away that America is now on its way to becoming a mendacious autocratic kakistocracy!